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LukeW
LukeW Ideation + Design provides resources for mobile and Web product design and strategy including presentations, workshops, articles, books and more on usability, interaction design and visual design.
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- 2,146 from 18 Aug 2001 to 26 Oct 2026
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- weekly (35 in the last year)
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October 2026
- Technology Limits are Temporary
- Ask LukeW: Instant Content Indexing
- Building Blocks for Intelligence
- The Convergence of Design
- Many Agents, Many Views
- Design Systems for AI Agents
September 2026
- Skip the Tools, Make the Outcomes
- Ask LukeW: Less Walls of Text
- Large Scale Agent Coordination
- Always Asking People to Ask
August 2026
July 2026
June 2026
May 2026
April 2026
- Finally, the Handoff is Dead
- Podcast: Agents, Interfaces, and More
- The New Designer/Developer Collaboration
- Should Designers "Code"?
March 2026
- Consistent Character Maker Update
- Durable Patterns in AI Product Design
- Finding the Role of Humans in AI Products
- Small Teams Win, Again
February 2026
January 2026
- Agent Orchestration UI
- Design Tools Are The New Design Deliverables
- AI Enables As-Needed Software Features
December 2025
November 2025
October 2025
- Rethinking Networking for the AI/ML Era
- How Design Teams Are Reacting to 10x Developer Productivity from AI
- Tackling Common UX Hurdles with AI
- Embedded AI Apps: Now in ChatGPT
- Let the AI do the Onboarding
- Wrapper vs. Embedded AI Apps
- We're (Still) Not Giving Data Enough Credit
September 2025
- Podcast: Generative AI in the Real World
- Future Product Days: How to solve the right problem with AI
- Future Product Days: Hidden Forces Driving User Behavior
- Future Product Days: The AI Adoption Gap
- Future Product Days: Future of Product Creators
- Defining Chat Apps
- Letting the Machines Learn
- Unstructured Input in AI Apps Instead of Web Forms
- World Knowledge Improves AI Apps
August 2025
- Chat is: the Future or a Terrible UI
- Platform Shifts Redefine Apps
- Five Paths to Solving Robotics
- Rethinking Applications for AI
- Dynamic Context for AI Agents
July 2025
- Prompt Building User Interfaces
- AI Has Flipped Software Development
- Designing Software for AI Agents
- Context Management UI in AI Products
June 2025
- What Do You Want To AI?
- More on Generative Publishing
- Common AI Product Issues
- Agent Management Interface Patterns
- The Receding Role of AI Chat
May 2025
- Ask LukeW: Generation Model Testing
- MCP: Model-Context-Protocol
- Background Agents Reduce Context Window Issues
- Enhancing Prompts with Contextual Retrieval
- UXPA: Bridging AI and Human Expertise
- UXPA: Designing Humane Experiences
- UXPA: Using AI to Streamline Persona & Journey Map Creation
- Make the AI Models do the Prompting
April 2025
- The Evolution of AI Products
- Designing Perplexity
- Just in Time Content
- Usable Chat Interfaces to AI Models
March 2025
- Ask LukeW: 2 Years and 27,000 Answers
- Toward a Universal App Architecture
- Vision Mission Strategy (Objectives)
February 2025
- Molecular Sequence Modeling & Design
- The More You Own, The More You Maintain
- Ask LukeW: Conversational AI Usability Study
- Ask LukeW: Custom Re-ranker
- Chat Interfaces & Declaring Intent
- Do All AI Models Need To Be Assistants?
January 2025
October 2024
- Smashing Conf: How to Use AI to Build Accessible Products
- Smashing Conf: Is Atomic Design Dead?
- Ask LukeW: Streaming Inline Images
September 2024
August 2024
- Google Glass in an AI World
- iOS18 Photos: Tab Bar to Single Scroll View
- A Visual Approach to Help Pages
- Intent-driven User Interfaces
- Distraction Control for the Web
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
- Portfolio Presentations & Design Work
- Generation IT
- Pinball User Interface
- The Most Important Startup Skill
February 2024
- Life Post-Moore's Law
- ConveyUX: Three Conversations in Design
- ConveyUX: Building Expertise into Generated Conversations
- ConveyUX: Good UX is Good Business
- AI Models and Headsets
- There are no Original Ideas. But...
- Apple Vision Pro: First Experience
January 2024
- Common Visual Treatments
- Discomfort is a Strategic Advantage
- Video: Using Website Content in AI Interfaces
December 2023
- The More Features You Add...
- Video: PDFs & Conversational Interfaces
- Video: Suggested Questions in Conversational UI
- Designing for AI: Panel Notes
- Video: Embedded Experiences in Conversational UI
- Video: Structuring Website Content with AI
- Video: Expanding Conversational Interfaces
November 2023
- AI Models Enable New Capabilities
- Early Glimpses of Really Personal Assistants
- AI Models in Software UI
- Until the Right Design Emerges...
- Multi-Modal Personal Assistants: Early Explorations
- Always Be Learning
- Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation (RITE)
October 2023
- Smashing Conf: UX Writing with a Point of View
- Smashing Conf: Journey in Enterprise UX
- Generative Agents
July 2023
- Ask LukeW: Integrated PDF Experiences
- Video: The Gap Between Company & Customer
- Watch Out For that Tree! Problems with Competitive Analysis
June 2023
- Video: Stay Close to Customers
- Apple WWDC: Principles of Spatial Design
- Apple Vision Pro: First Thoughts
- Video: App Install Ads & Checkout Conversion
May 2023
- Object-centric vs. Canvas-centric Image Editing
- Ask LukeW: Integrated Video Experiences
- Augmented Reality UI Speculation
- Video: Redesigning a Mobile E-commerce Website
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